London: The Religious Tract Society.
This prettily: bound little volume of 191 pages ie, for its size, one of the best books on China that we have come across for some time, The great chatty of its thirty-five short chapters is that there is riy fine writing and little generalization in them, but a direct, candid, record o thor's own experiences, the experiences, of. a man of unusual comuion and good powers of observation, The reader gots a perfect Bhotograph of work in Chinw an x mand done by the author, told with American humour, Very interesting is, tho author's a work far too much neglect-tempts to Tench the higher hitherto. "There isa little exaggeration of the population of Shanghai on page 1, where the author has taken, without examination, what was apparently told him when be first arrived, but this is a. very small blemish on the other hand, the numerous friends of the Rev. Timothy Richard will read with great plossure the author's appreciation: this gentleman on page 131;.and we note with much pleasure the generous way in which the author speake of the Roman Catholic mission in China, whose labours are sometimes not done justice, to by their Protestant rivals. The illustrations are most of them evidently from phokygraphs, und these are reliable; but some, af them appear to have come from, the old stook of the publishers; and, it woul, be well for the Religions Tract Society to got sone China hand to overhaul their stock of pictures of China, and condemn, those which have outlasted their utility, Musprs, Cassett's Postications.
With: the, advent, of the long evenings the pleasures of reading once more. begin to assert themselves, and library catalogues gre searched with an interest which was nit nite so keen fin-summer'é heat.""
addition to. the more. substantial rending matter supplied by the library; one now and then geeks amusement. im the lighter literature provided by the periodicals, and it is not too much to say that -in-this Messrs. Cassell's publications: still retain that position of high excellence. they. achieved so long. ago:.~. Pheré:'is: a variety, freshness, and healthy vigour. about, them most gratifying'to notice, "Phe! July parts of several of: the magazines: which have reached us merit.the high commenddtion, which we. have on. previous occasions bestowed upon predecessors... "Cassell's Family Magazine is as entertain aud.it.can. truthfully "be. cai model, publication.' There allowance -of, fiction, ' accompanied merous papefa upon the most miscellaneous matters, and all, giving some information
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